Staff Engineer (Marketing Data Engineering) at Compare the Market

  • Anywhere (100% Remote) Only
  • Compare the Market
Job Description:

A little about the role

As a Staff Engineer for Compare the Market, you will assume a key position providing architectural expertise and guidance that enables the vision of the overall solution to be delivered. You will use your knowledge of the architectural configuration of your product area to influence decisions about what tools and technologies will enhance our service offering.

This is a highly technical role and your enthusiasm for exploring new technology and tools will be valued in this team. You will have a deep understanding of the services in your area of the business and how you contribute to the customer (internal or external) success and positive commercial outcomes. You will ensure that we maintain our standards of engineering excellence, both within your business area and as part of a community of engineering, contributing to CtM wide standards, processes and tools.

On top of that, you will have the opportunity to guide, mentor and coach a delivery team of engineers, developing your own people management skills in the process.

Our environment is one that has 300+ technical people in a company that champions Pair Programming, innovation days and a challenge culture, as well as uses a plethora of tools and technologies such as AWS, Kafka, Java, Python, Scala, Docker, Terraform, MongoDB and more – this will be a great opportunity to learn and grow your career.

What we want to see from you:

As an experienced individual, you will be able to demonstrate involvement in the delivery of applications that underpin business or consumer facing products, and the part you played in improving their quality.

  • Has a broad impact across teams in their domain, raises the bar for engineering excellence across those teams
  • Creates alignment across teams in their domain ensuring that best practice and architectural decisions are well understood within the domain
  • Capable of setting short to medium term strategies for our services and products, creating designs and roadmaps to communicate and plan change over time in a domain’s estate
  • Provides direction, advice and guidance on the approach to delivering services and products. Collaborates with and guides other engineers in assessing and evaluating new technologies within the domain. Reduces complexity within our software, processes and tools
  • Advocate of engineering excellence within the domain, contributes to technological wide engineering standards, processes and tools
  • Contributes to the assessment and adoption of standards, processes and tools across the whole of CtM
  • Provides technical input into planning and business case definitions Takes a risk-based approach to decision making, guides other engineers in taking the - same approach, makes sure that our risk controls are considered when delivering software
  • Understands the regulatory framework in which CtM operates and how it applies to their role and other engineering roles

Essential skills:

  • Strong experience in Data Engineering
  • Experience working closely with engineering teams, setting a technical vision and working together to achieve it
  • Proven experience of making technical and architectural decisions that meet customer and commercial needs
  • Self-starter, strong influencing and negotiation skills, able to manage non-technical and technical stakeholder relationships

Desirable skills:

  • Advocate of lean principles, keen to code and perform research and development into new technologies
  • Active learner, keeping up to date with developments in your technical and professional area of expertise
  • Structured approach to governance and standards and eagerness to further engineering excellence at CtM

Diversity and Inclusion We're a diverse community of dedicated, innovative and talented professionals. With an inclusive and open workplace, we encourage our people to create and share ideas – supporting their growth and celebrating their uniqueness. We are committed to offering equal chances to you throughout the application process, so if you require any special adjustments to be made, please let us know. We will work with you to make any appropriate arrangements.

Company Benefits

  • Flexible working
  • Hybrid working culture (mixture of remote and state of the art office spaces)
  • Brilliant office space made for collaboration and agile working
  • Competitive salaries based on experience, expertise and qualifications
  • Bonus scheme
  • Contributory pension scheme
  • Wellbeing programme focused on physical, emotional and financial wellbeing
  • Private health care
  • Free fruit in our offices
  • An onsite gym at our headquarters in Peterborough - and a gym discount scheme for those based in London
  • Season ticket loan and cycle to work schemes
  • Plus, loads more through our flexible benefits hub

Interview Process

  • Telephone call
  • Final Interview with case study/ tech test

Other Jobs in Data Scientist